Yesterday I attended a meeting of pro-choice colleagues working to ensure women throughout this country get safe, compassionate abortion care. Today, I received an email from one of those colleagues, detailing the ordeal through which she was put by American Airlines on her flights home. They actually forced her to miss her connecting flight and demanded she change her top. The reason? Her politically salient pro-choice t-shirt was offensive to the flight crew.

That sign said: "If I wanted the government in my womb, I'd f*** a senator." ...

If she wanted government in her womb she’d want the government to mandate that her insurer give her “free” contraception and pay for the cost of terminating all failed contraceptions - I guess she does want the government in there after all.

So? Make a pest of yourself and you will be tossed off. Riding in a noisy, cramped metal tube with a few dozen to a few hundred people is downright unpleasant enough anyway without finding out you are sharing the experience with someone who has the social skills of an angry skunk.

That ticket is not a license to make everyone else on the plane even more miserable.

We should treat people wearing offensive crap and spewing offensive crap by mocking the mericlessly publicly and literally pointing fingers at them and laughing at the calling them fools.... I guess that is a “hate crime” these days...

It was the private airline, not the government TSA, who was the heavy here. They don’t have to let you take porn to view on board, for instance. A church wouldn’t have had to let her sit in the pews with that showing. Etc.

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posted on 05/23/2012 11:41:55 PM PDT
by HiTech RedNeck
(Let me ABOs run loose Lou, let me ABOs run loose! They are of much use Lou, so let me ABOs run loose)

She did, but the fix to the problem wasn’t an unreasonable one and it was a public airline with tariffed guarantees and they never have to guarantee a seat. Turning the shirt inside out would have sufficed.

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posted on 05/23/2012 11:43:56 PM PDT
by HiTech RedNeck
(Let me ABOs run loose Lou, let me ABOs run loose! They are of much use Lou, so let me ABOs run loose)

Second of all, the 9/11 Hijackers “paid” for their tickets too. What's your point?

Buying a ticket from an Airline does not give you Carte Blanche to offend your fellow passengers and their children with such a display of disgusting filth.

What a cesspool this country has become. This Media Driven narcissistic “look at me” behavior promoted throughout our Society is like a cancer. I am disgusted how we just shrug off such rudeness that would have been considered outside the realm of acceptable manners when I was growing up.

Airlines haven’t filed tariffs since the Civil Aeronautics Board was abolished in the ‘70s. When you buy a ticket you have a Contract of Carriage with the airline. You pretty much follow their rules or you don’t fly. If you are particularly obnoxious, an airline is free to ban you for life.

You would “defend to the death” someone’s right to wear a shirt like that, freedumb?

Boy.

Well my take on it is that when I saw a car parked outside my house with a F+++ BUSH bumper sticker, I politely told the fellow that he was under no obligation to remove the bumper sticker, but that it might be better for his car in the long run, were the neighborhood children not able to see it.

The comments under the article are telling. I especially like how the one sane poster over there (”dventimi”) took the author to task for her “facts”, AND didn’t let her skate when she tried to dismiss his altogether calm and fair argument as “a rant”. Ms. Jacobson doesn’t exactly seem to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.

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